Yale University Press, May 2015. Hardcover. A fine copy, still sealed in original shrinkwrap. A comprehensive look at the life and work of one of the 20th century's most influential architects Aldo van Eyck (1918-1999) was a Dutch architect, writer, and teacher who helped redefine Modern architecture in the second.....
Yale University Press, March 2016. Hardcover. A fine copy, in original shrinkwrap. Through Creole houses and merchant stores to sugar fields and boiling houses, Jamaica played a leading role in the formation of both the early modern Atlantic world and the British Empire. Architecture and Empire in Jamaica offers the.....
John Galen Howard, n.d., [1918]. Trade Paperback. Approximately 140 typed mimeographed pages. Title page, table of contents, notice to bidders and specifications. Specifications for excavation and grading, concrete work, brick work, structural steel, roofing and sheet metal, exterior cement finish, etc. Forms of Contract and Bond, and Form of Proposal.....
John Galen Howard, 1924. Trade Paperback. Approximately 50 typed mimeographed pages. Specifications for excavation and grading, concrete, brick, tile, plastering, painting, heating and electric work. John Galen Howard (1864-1931) moved to San Francisco in 1901 to execute the Hearst Plan as the supervising architect of the Master Plan of the.....
Dover Publications, 1969. Trade Paperback. Although he was known in his own time as a leader of the so-called Romanesque Revival, the American architect Henry Hobson Richardson (1838-86) is today regarded as one of the pioneers of modern architecture -- a man who, in the words of Lewis Mumford, "created.....
Te Neues Publishing Company, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. 79 pages. Numerous color illustrations and B/W drawings. First edition (first printing). Near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.
Te Neues Publishing Company, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. 79 pages. Numerous color illustrations with B/W drawings. First edition (first printing). Near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Rem Koolhaas (Rotterdam,1944) studied architecture at the AA in London--where he went on to become a lecturer--and at the IAUS in.....
Forderer Cornice Works, ca. 1930s. Trade Paperback. Four plates on heavy paper, 11 x 8.5 inches, printed in color on yellow background. Forderer Cornice Works was founded by Joseph Forderer, born in Baden-Baden (1850), in San Francisco in 1875. Four plates are near fine except for punched holes on left.....
Imprenta del Memorial de Ingenieros, 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. 21 double page plates in part one and 24 double page plates in part two. 13 x 11 inches. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in leather over board covers with gilt decoration on front cover and lettering on.....
University of California PRess, 1920. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 119 pages. Illustrated in black-and-white. First paperback edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback). Page block starting to detach from wrappers at spine head.
Boston Architectural Club, 1914. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 223 pages. Full-page black-and-white illustrations. First edition thus. A very good copy in cloth covers with bright gold lettering on front cover. No dust jacket.
B. T. Batsford, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. 22 text pages with preface and description of plates. Plates are loose. Details of a grand country house with 10 bedrooms, billiard room, tower, drawing-room, study, hall, etc. First edition. A very good copy in brown cloth covers. Mild edge and corner wear.....
Houghton Mifflin, April 1994. Trade Paperback. Treehouses Lift the Spirits. They inspire dreams. They represent freedom: from adults or adulthood, from duties and responsibilities, from an earthbound perspective. If we can't fly with the birds, at least we can nest with them. With lively writing and beautiful photographs, Treehouses paints.....
Dover Publications, January 1993. Trade Paperback. Organic form was Frank Lloyd Wright's credo, and its most splendid embodiment is Fallingwater, designed and built for the Pittsburgh merchant Edgar Kaufmann in the 1930s. The private dwelling, which juts directly over a waterfall at Bear Run in western Pennsylvania, is the boldest.....
Oxford University Press, August 1989. Trade Paperback. There exists perhaps no site more arresting than the strange rockscape of Cappadocia in central Turkey. Buried within the heart of this incredible vision of shapes and colors lie hundreds of monasteries and churches where Christian communities lived and prayed for the greater.....
Van Nostrand Reinhold, June 1986. Trade Paperback.
Phaidon Press, July 1998. Trade Paperback. Rome is a city built for display and grandeur. For centuries it has been a place of pilgrimage for artists and art-lovers, yet many of its greatest treasures remain unseen by the public. This book sets out to penetrate the hidden world of Rome's.....
Phaidon Press, July 1998. Trade Paperback. This work provides a photographic record of 100 of London's most interesting period interiors, selected by a leading architectural historian. Specially commissioned photographs capture the varied atmospheres, from gentlemen's clubs, hotels, restaurants, shops, pubs and hospitals, to town houses. Each photograph is accompanied by.....
Phaidon Press, July 1998. Trade Paperback. This work provides a photographic record of over 100 of Paris' historic interiors. The celebrated home of elegant salons, Paris has long fascinated the onlooker. From the opulent staircases of the Second Empire Opera, to the rational unyielding lines of Le Corbusier Villa Roche.....
Storey Publishing, LLC, January 1998. Trade Paperback. Build the woodland hideaway of your dreams! From an elegant gazebo on the water to a rustic log cabin, this practical guide provides complete plans and illustrated step-by-step instructions for constructing more than 20 low-cost, sturdy, and beautiful outdoor structures. With expert advice.....
Rodale Pr, June 1986. Hardcover.
Dover Publications, June 1973. Trade Paperback. Edmund Gillon has photographed and Clay Lancaster commented on 116 remarkable but lesser-known Victorian American homes. From Nova Scotia to Geneva, New York to Cape May, these rarely appreciated dwellings offer some of the best 19th-century architecture. Includes row houses, cottages, farms, summer homes.....
Weatherhill / Heibonsha, (1975). First Edition. Hardcover. 162 pages. 7-3/8 by 9-3/8 inches. Illustrated with more than 160 photo reproductions, mostly in black-and-white, and a fold-out map. First edition (first printing). A bit musty thus a very good copy in a near fine dust jacket.
Escuela Nacional de Conservacion, Restauracion y Museografia Manuel del Castillo Negrete, 1979. First Edition. Trade Paperback. About 560 pages. 8-1/2 b11 inches. Facsimile of an important 17th century manuscript by an architect whose work influenced Mexican architecture of the period. Reproduces the manuscript and provides a transcripton. One of 500.....
ESCUDO DE ORA, January 1988. Trade Paperback.